Posted on 06/02/21
| News Source: i24
Health Ministry announces that adolescents ages 12 to 16 to be administered coronavirus vaccine
Israel will start administering COVID-19 vaccine doses to teenagers ages 12 to 16 starting next week, the Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday.
The decision was made Tuesday night following what the ministry described as a "lengthy discussion" with presentations by experts.
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Risks from expanding vaccines to adolescents were reviewed, including from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. A Health Ministry study recently found a small number of myocarditis cases in males under the age of 30 after taking the second Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine shot. Read more at i24